NCRB merges with Bureau of Police R&D

The Government has merged the National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB) with the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).

With this merger, the NCRB has come under the administrative control of the Director General of the BPR&D. The BPR&D will now oversee all the data collection related to Crime in India, accidental deaths and suicides, prison Statistics and fingerprints.

The NCRB has been the principal source of reference related to crime by policy makers, police, criminologists, researchers and media both in India and abroad.